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Because it lacks precise answers to this question, the traditional left tends to overreach – allowing government to expand with no limits – or to focus on means instead of ends.
All of this structural change is part of a constantly shifting global economic landscape whose aggregate pattern is not perfectly predictable, in part because countries enter and engage with the global economy at different times and expand at different rates.
But the scope of the export sector itself will have to expand in order to generate sufficient employment and reduce the external deficit.
Because new government purchases can devolve into counterproductive political boondoggles that spur little economic growth, another proposal one often hears is to expand government transfer payments.
If a half-century of experience in the US is an accurate guide, the waistlines of Asian consumers – in Asia and America – are poised to expand in step with the fast-food industry’s increasingly ethnic-focused marketing, with serious potential health consequences.
For the EU to continue its Russia policies of the 1990’s in this new context would merely reintroduce sphere-of-influence politics rather than expand the borders of democracy.
A top priority should be to preserve and expand its cost-cutting provisions.
Businesses will want to borrow, and banks will want to expand their lending.
They began to expand their welfare state, pushing the government’s share in GDP from 39% to 49% and welcoming union-proposed double-digit wage increases.
While real growth rates of 4% or higher are not in the immediate future, the US economy will probably expand by 3% in 2018, a pace not achieved in a dozen years.
Although CAFTA represents an important opportunity in the region's quest to expand its access to the US market, it is unclear whether the new rules will strengthen or weaken Central American producers.
Unlike their counterparts in the US, Central American producers lack access to the capital and technology needed for them to expand and innovate.
On the supply side, the key question is whether the innovating sector has access to the capital and skills it needs to expand rapidly and continuously.
This perverse outcome becomes possible when there is severe technological dualism in the economy and the more productive activities do not expand rapidly enough.
We tried to expand political dialogue, enhance economic interdependence, and strengthen cultural and social understanding.
Indeed, there is no indication how any of his tax policies would be financed, and every indication that they would sharply expand the budget deficit.
With China now America’s third largest – and by far its most rapidly growing – export market, the US should push hard to expand business opportunities in China, especially as the Chinese economy tilts increasingly toward internal demand.
As cities expand, they swallow up land that would otherwise be used for food production.
There can be little doubt that immigrants expand the overall pie; but what about their effect on how that pie is shared?
They expand locally and globally to satisfy market demand, providing the illicit goods and services that societies want.
It would also provide the evidence needed to go to governments, foundations, and global institutions for the much larger sums required to expand the present system of incentives that guide pharmaceutical companies’ decisions.
Europe greatly lags many Asian countries in its efforts to expand the reach of broadband.
But, partly owing to a Supreme Court decision and the obduracy of Republican governors and legislators, who in two dozen US states have refused to expand Medicaid (insurance for the poor) – even though the federal government pays almost the entire tab – 41 million Americans remain uninsured.
The Palestinians want an independent state, but on the condition that they secure Jerusalem as its capital, and that Israel ceases to expand settlements on territory that it has occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War.
For as it does, China is using its colossal financial firepower to expand its strategic position on the continent, without linking aid and investment to pesky demands for good governance.
As these countries make progress on development, pressure to expand that corner is mounting.
With the right approach, connecting people through ICT could empower women, expand access to health care, boost financial inclusion, close the gap between urban and rural areas, and open up new business models, particularly for SMEs.
The goal of the program, inherited from the previous administration, is a good one: expand knowledge among the young about modern China.
Moreover, Israel should use Egypt’s vital role in brokering the recent cease-fire as an opportunity to expand the bilateral dialogue with the new Islamist regime in Cairo to include issues of peace and regional security.
MDBs should work expeditiously with the private sector to expand greatly the scale of such new mechanisms, and their capital should be increased if they demonstrate success.
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